Students champion missing persons’ day

A group of Cork students who have been campaigning to establish a national day for missing people were last night named as Young Social Innovators of the year 2012.

The 24 students from Davis College, Mallow, Co Cork, will take their project, Forget Me Not, a step further today when they meet Justice Minister, Alan Shatter, and urge him to establish a national missing persons’ day.

One of the students involved in the project, transition year student Josie McGrath, 16, said they had worked hard over the past year in building on a project on missing persons begun by another group in the school who were runners-up in last year’s showcase event.